Chesco D.A. promotes 4 prosecutors to deputy

WEST CHESTER — The Chester County District Attorney’s office has four new deputy attorneys.

Michelle Frei, Thomas Ost-Pricso, Renée Merion and Mark Conte are all prosecutors who were promoted to the position of deputy district attorneys, according to a press release.

“The new deputies are dedicated and experienced prosecutors,” Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said in the release. “They all have distinct areas of expertise. The District Attorney’s Office just made a strong leadership team even stronger.”

Frei has been a prosecutor for 12 years, according to the release. She was a part of the team that convicted Laquanta Chapman of first degree murder in a death penalty case and she is the head of the domestic violence prosecutions for the county.

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Ost-Prisco is in charge of the arson and explosives investigations in the county and has been a prosecutor of 15 years, the release said. He is an acting liaison to the county fire departments and arson investigators.

Merion is the head of the county’s District Attorney’s Juvenile Unit where she handles all aspects of juvenile prosecutions, according to the release. She has been a prosecutor for 19 years.

Conte is assigned to the courtroom of the Honorable James P. MacElree II, who is the President Judge of Chester County, the release said. He is in charge of trial advocacy training for the District Attorney’s Office and he has been a prosecutor of 13 years.